Pool Manager

**POOL MANAGER (BASED IN ANY OCBA HUB)**:

ESFull TimeHuman Resources

**GENERAL CONTEXT**

Médecins Sans Frontières is an international independent medical-humanitarian organization, which offers assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict, without discrimination and irrespective of race, religion, creed, or political affiliation.

**JOB GENERAL OBJECTIVE AND CONTEXT**

The Profile Manager is hierarchically accountable to the Coordinator for Strategic Positions in Pool Management Service and aims at contributing to guaranteeing the presence in the MSF OCBA missions of the necessary professionals based on quality and quantity needs in the short, mid and long term. This will be achieved by managing a pool of professionals matching the Organisation’s requirements.

The position is placed within the HR Department including the Management and Assistant to the Department and 3 units: Onboarding and deployment unit, Staff health, safety and support unit and Learning and development unit

The Recruitment, Development and Pool Management Unit is composed of a team of Profile Managers and one Recruitment team

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS**

**Development of his/her Pool based on Operational Needs**

The Profile Manager is the professional in charge of developing a pool of International Mobile Staff (and Locally Hired Staff holding field coordination positions) aligned with the Operations needs in MSF-OCBA.
- Ensure the availability in the Organisation of people having profiles matching operational needs, ready to be deployed in the field, while coordinating with Operation department to know and anticipate needs.
- Design and implement strategies to build the HR capacity needed for short, medium and long term.
- Ensure the quantitative and qualitative follow-up of his/her pool and analyse it accordingly so as to anticipate future recruitment, selection and development needs.
- Guarantee the follow-up and development of International Mobile Staff (and Locally Hired Staff holding field coordination positions) within the Organisation with future insight in terms of future missions based on Operational needs.
- Identify transversal development needs of the pool based on current gaps of capacities or foreseen future needs in Operations.
- Ensure proper link and synergies with the operations department to ensure the development of specific strategies for FCs induction & development.

**HR Development and Career Management**

The Profile Manager is the reference person for the International Mobile Staff (and Locally Hired Staff holding field coordination positions) in terms of Development and Career Management of our HR in MSF-OCBA.
- Follow up together with the REHUCO that International Mobile Staff (and Locally Hired Staff holding field coordination positions) receive the evaluations & upward feedbacks required.
- Identify the development needs of each person of the pool in terms of competencies, languages and technical skills coming from evaluations and regular feedback from cells.
- Support each person of the pool to assimilate the improvement areas detected and define plans together with the people in the pool to improve these areas and also to reinforce their strengths.
- Follow and be in contact with each person of his/her pool and support their professional development, orienting their career path within the Organisation based on the individual interests and the organizational needs.
- Support and revise the trainings offered by the Learning Unit to check if they correspond to the needs of the pool and operations.
- Ensures people in the pool are aware of the individual support offer like mentoring or coaching.
- Invest development efforts based on the commitment to MSF, performance and potential/interest in critical positions of each person of the pool, giving priority in terms of development to people under Long-Term Commitment packages.
- Ensure proper communication with other pool managers to proper follow up people with potential in the career path, both people growing to FC and from FC to HoM.
- Participate in the BFs to ensure the deployment is happening correctly.
- Debrief the pool at the end of assignment, focusing on their future professional motivations and the reinforcement of their development challenges.
- Be the liaison with Behavior and HR conflict management Unit to ensure members of the pool are aware and adhere to OCBA Behavior Frame.

**Matching**

The Profile Manager is responsible for searching, identifying and appointing the people to fill field vacancies, seeing in turn to the development of a career path for the International Mobile Staff (and Locally Hired Staff holding field coordination positions) throughout their professional life in the Organisation.
- Follow up the closed matching with the HR reference officers in the Operational Cells (Rehucos), Staff Health Unit, Travel Unit and Administration so that depa